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With 7 ships in 2 days, Charlottetown heating up as cruise destination

The Port of Charlottetown set a record this week with seven cruise ships visiting in just two days.

'When we look at four ships in the harbour obviously it's a beautiful sight'

Kevin Yarr · CBC News ·
One, two, three, four: Two ships, one large and one small, are at the dock, and another two are anchored to the left. (Pat Martel/CBC)

The Port of Charlottetown set a record this week with seven cruise ships visiting in just two days.

There were three ships Wednesday and four Thursday, bringing about 14,000 passengers, which is close to the population of Summerside.

"That doesn't include the crew and we know a lot of the crew come off too. So the numbers are pretty impressive," said Corryn Clemence, cruise development manager for the Port of Charlottetown.

Clemence said the ships on Wednesday were larger, so it is about the same number of passengers both days. While there are no more four-ship days scheduled, there will be more days with three large ships.

Two of the three large ships in Charlottetown Harbour Wednesday. (Randy McAndrew/CBC)

"When we look at four ships in the harbour, obviously it's a beautiful sight to see, but our triple-ship days that we have coming up are a lot of really large vessels. So our passenger count is still incredibly high," Clemence said.

The next scheduled three-ship day in Charlottetown Harbour is Sept. 29.

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Kevin Yarr is the early morning web journalist at CBC P.E.I. Kevin has a specialty in data journalism, and how statistics relate to the changing lives of Islanders. He has a BSc and a BA from Dalhousie University, and studied journalism at Holland College in Charlottetown. You can reach him at kevin.yarr@cbc.ca.

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